In two years the Internet Law Center will celebrate its 20th year. This year, however, the firm is celebrating a somewhat bittersweet milestone — our first retirement. After fifteen years of helping this firm as a legal assistant with a specialty in trademark filings, Raun MacKinnon Burnham has taken her final bow. According to SevenReflections.com,…
As part of our commitment to keeping you informed of new regulatory developments and their potential implications, we have highlighted recent statements by federal officials concerning loyalty programs, such as those involving airline miles and credit card points. These comments signal a potential shift in how these programs are viewed under consumer protection laws, and…
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The University of Windsor’s agreements with encampment protesters and a student group have rightly raised concerns about antisemitism given their double standard treatment of Israeli institutions and impact on academic freedoms. While much of the initial emphasis has focused on the ill-advised decision to effectively establish a ban on agreements with Israeli institutions and establish…
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”) is a federal law – part of the Lanham Act that deals with trademarks and unfair competition. It says that a person can be liable if he or she registers a domain name that contains another’s distinctive trademark with a bad faith intent to profit from that mark. One…
The Globe and Mail runs my opinion piece on Canada’s digital services tax today. I open by noting that the Canadian government’s efforts to regulate big tech companies sometimes feels like a series of high-stakes poker matches in which the government foolishly bets that readily apparent risks can be ignored. That approach has proven costly:…
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Part 3 of a short series of reflections on Ofcom’s Illegal Harms consultation under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA). This post analyses the illegality duties created by the OSA. That is not as simple as one might hope. The intrepid reader has to hack their way through a thicket of separately defined, subtly differing, duties….
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This is the fifth and final post in a blog series in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cybersecurity might seem like technical stuff, but don’t overlook the role of physical vulnerabilities in security incidents. The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 11% of breaches involved physical actions. The 2016 Verizon Data Breach…
This is Part 2 of a short series of reflections on Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Consultation under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA). Ofcom are currently in the process of considering submissions following closure of the consultation in February 2o24. The very title of the Ofcom consultation — Illegal Harms — prompts questions about the illegality…
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